Hi Monia, 'Burst' is a very broad term. It would be useful to clarify to what you are referring.. I can think of a few possibilities: - Data Transmission: The length of an uninterrupted flow of information. - Traffic Engineering: The ability for traffic to temporarily exceed it's allocated (average) bandwidth share. - Internal Event: A backup (scheduled) or a server failure (adhoc) altering traffic patterns. - External Event: Marketing campaign / event coinciding with increased traffic towards say, a website. Perhaps -> Over what period of time is a 'Burst'..? Cheers, Heath On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Monia Ghobadi <monia@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
Dear Nanog members,
I am a PhD student at University of Toronto and I am working on traffic burstiness in data centers. In the following I am asking two questions to raise motivation for my research. I appreciate if anyone could answer these questions to their best knowledge. *The questions are:*
1) ‘Bursty’ is a word with no agreed meaning. How do you define a bursty traffic? 2) If you are involved with a data center, is your data center traffic bursty? -- If yes, -- Do you think that it will be useful to supress the burstiness in your traffic? (For example by pacing the traffic into shorter bursts) -- If no: -- Are you already supressing the burstiness? How? -- Would you anticipate the traffic becoming burstier in the future?
Thanks, Monia
------------------ Monia Ghobadi PhD Student University of Toronto http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~monia/